i have a few questions for more experienced internet players then i am and i am looking for positive or negative feedback on my thoughts. i am a good solid holdem poker player and regularly play in tough games where i come from, mainly tournaments. i have put alot of effort in to reading poker books and game theory and i am keen to start building a bankroll to play poker on the internet and continue to learn, keep growing a bankroll and continue to move up stakes, my first question is what ring game stakes to start at? my first thoughts were that i was going to earn 2000 dollars outside of poker and lodge it with an account at pokerstars.com, i said to myself that i am goin to play 1/2 $ pot - limit holdem and i will only use 10% of my bankroll on any given day. i began to realise that this would have been a mistake. for starters it was alot to risk when i had never played internet ring games before and that the stakes were to high. Could i beat this game regularly? i wasnt sure. Pokerstars even classifies 1/2$ pot - limit holdem as medium stakes! after thinking about a soloution that i was comfortable with i came up with an idea to shorten my bankroll to 500$ and play 25/50 cent stakes. I am very confident that i can beat this game 9 handed consistently. my plan is to sit down with 100 big bets (50 dollars) and play for a pre - set amount of time on any given night (say 3 hours). my questions are? am i starting at too high stakes or too low stakes? is my bankroll sufficient for the game intended? should i sit down with less than 100 big bets? what standard of players can i expect to find at these stakes? (tight players, loose passive game, unpredicatble players, sharks)

my next thoughts regarding playing other forms of poker. what games to people recommend i play, at what stakes to start with and does anyone know any good beginners books on these games(not books for dummies!)
any feedback would be much appreciated, dioufy77